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Ah, Those Principled Europeans
by Darwin at 6:11 pm EST, Feb 6, 2003

RUSSELS -- Last week I went to lunch at the Hotel Schweizerhof in Davos, Switzerland, and discovered why America and Europe are at odds. At the bottom of the lunch menu was a list of the countries that the lamb, beef and chicken came from. But next to the meat imported from the U.S. was a tiny asterisk, which warned that it might contain genetically modified organisms — G.M.O.'s.

My initial patriotic instinct was to order the U.S. beef and ask for it "tartare," just for spite. But then I and my lunch guest just looked at each other and had a good laugh. How quaint! we said. Europeans, out of some romantic rebellion against America and high technology, were shunning U.S.-grown food containing G.M.O.'s — even though there is no scientific evidence that these are harmful. But practically everywhere we went in Davos, Europeans were smoking cigarettes — with their meals, coffee or conversation — even though there is indisputable scientific evidence that smoking can kill you. In fact, I got enough secondhand smoke just dining in Europe last week to make me want to have a chest X-ray.


 
RE: Ah, Those Principled Europeans
by cyantist at 4:43 pm EST, Feb 7, 2003

Darwin wrote:
] RUSSELS -- Last week I went to lunch at the Hotel Schweizerhof
] in Davos, Switzerland, and discovered why America and Europe
] are at odds. At the bottom of the lunch menu was a list of the
] countries that the lamb, beef and chicken came from. But next
] to the meat imported from the U.S. was a tiny asterisk, which
] warned that it might contain genetically modified organisms —
] G.M.O.'s.
]
] My initial patriotic instinct was to order the U.S. beef and
] ask for it "tartare," just for spite. But then I and my lunch
] guest just looked at each other and had a good laugh. How
] quaint! we said. Europeans, out of some romantic rebellion
] against America and high technology, were shunning U.S.-grown
] food containing G.M.O.'s — even though there is no scientific
] evidence that these are harmful. But practically everywhere we
] went in Davos, Europeans were smoking cigarettes — with their
] meals, coffee or conversation — even though there is
] indisputable scientific evidence that smoking can kill you. In
] fact, I got enough secondhand smoke just dining in Europe last
] week to make me want to have a chest X-ray.

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